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Across all sports, who would you say is the most dominate ATHLETE??
Kobe
Duncan
Tiger
Federer
etc.
Federer
I think it has to be Federer. Only one guy -- Nadal on certain surfaces -- is even close to Federer. Tiger doesn't win every week (though he is undoubtedly in the conversation because he wins enough to be considered dominant in his game) and I think that's the thing that separates Federer from the rest. If Federer is in a tournament, he's the odds-on favorite to win. He's 52-6 in matches this year, with 3 of those losses coming in tournament finals.
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malysz
I was thinking the same thing. I mean, he has been #1 for 3 years now.......straight. That alone is insane. As for his TOTAL losses in the past 3 years...14.
The argument I have against Woods is as you said, he's not consistently good...Federer though prevails even when he's not playing his best against compe ion who is giving their 110% because they want to be the one who finally beats him. It's not easy going against people like that every match.
I started this thread in light of his US Open win yesterday.
I'm all Duncan, but he doesn't belong in this conversation.
Federer gets my vote, hands down. For reasons already stated here.
kobe????
why did you put kobe in your list?
lakers fans are so blind
It's Tiger. No doubt about it. Tiger didn't miss a cut for more than 7 years. Nobody has ever done what he's doing on the tour. Until Federer wins the French I don't think you can put him in the conversation.
If you take business away from the equation...then you have to say Roger...but if you include overall immersion of culture and sport, than you need to say Tiger....Now a better athlete...I'll go with Kobe on the list.
Federer and I don't think it's close.
Roger rules.
Lance Armstrong has to be in the conversation, I know that the question was about the most dominant athlete today but winning the Tour de France 7 consecutive times from '99 to '05 is just huge. In the world of professional road racing cycling that has to the equivalent of what Federer is doing in men's tennis and what Tiger is doing in the golf world. At the very least he deserves an honorable mention.
Walsh/May-Treanor
And very easy on the eyes as well...
Of course, we could argue the collective athlete known as the US Womens Soccer Team that has not lost in over 2 years. Ditto on the easy on the eyes thing...
How about the most dominant player never to win a professional championship.....
Nolan Ryan?
its hard to compare individual sports to team sports, how could a football player possibly dominate the 11 opposing players as federer dominates his ONE opponent.
I'll take LT, the best defense in football focused all their power on stopping him yesterday, and he still came through when he had to to get the chargers the victory.
no one player changes a game like LT, he runs with power, speed, and elusiveness. he catches as well as any receiver and throws better than many QB's, he blocks, reads defenses, he's as cerebral as manning and as good a leader as Duncan.
federer is the most dominant in individual sports
I'm not sure what the business side of things has to do with comparing the relative dominance of athletes. Anna Kournikova killed on the business side of things, but was only an okay singles player and a pretty good doubles player. Does her business success somehow elevate her career into a conversation comparing her career against Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, or even Justine Henin? I can't imagine why it would.
You seem to admit that Federer is the best on his court or field of play, but I just don't get why the latter part of your post has any relevance to this discussion. It's like that ridiculous ESPN poll this summer -- my appreciation (and I'd hope most other people feel this way) of a great athlete doesn't depend in any part on how marketable or how popular in our culture that person is; the person's feats in the arena of compe ion are the sole thing that drive my view of that person's athletic dominance.
Andy Rod
Roger and Tiger are very close IMO. Tennis is 1-on-1 while golf is against the entire field; sometimes I think it's more impressive to win consistently against an entire field than 1-on-1 and vice versa.
Tiger's only played in 15 events all year and has the most top 10 finishes (11, second place is 9). Everyone else of the top 10 played between 20-24 events. He''s also first in scoring average, most tourney wins and most cash earned (2nd place not even close in any of these categories).
I'm just gonna say they're about equal in their respective dominance of their sports.
You don't wake up them.
I say, Roger.
That's taking it a little too far. Only reason he is efficient thrower is because it happens so rarely, and when he gets the football in the backfield, backers, safeties and even corners are forced to come up to help stop the potential of the run. It almost always leads to one-on-one coverage to his intended targets, if not makes them completely wide open. It's not like he has a great spiral or he could run an offense if he was QB the majority of the game.
In reality, he doesn't throw better than any NFL QB.
James White!
Federer, no doubt.
well he's the throwingest RB ever, so it isn't that rare, defenses shouldn't be caught off guard by him throwing anymore. we really can't know if he could run an offense as a QB or not unless he actually tries it someday, I would love to see that.
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